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CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide

By : Mark Birch
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CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide

By: Mark Birch

Overview of this book

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) ensures that security practitioners stay on top of the ever-changing security landscape. The CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the CompTIA CAS-004 exam so you can take it with confidence, fully equipped to pass on the first attempt. Written in a clear, succinct way with self-assessment questions, exam tips, and mock exams with detailed explanations, this book covers security architecture, security operations, security engineering, cryptography, governance, risk, and compliance. You'll begin by developing the skills to architect, engineer, integrate, and implement secure solutions across complex environments to support a resilient enterprise. Moving on, you'll discover how to monitor and detect security incidents, implement incident response, and use automation to proactively support ongoing security operations. The book also shows you how to apply security practices in the cloud, on-premises, to endpoints, and to mobile infrastructure. Finally, you'll understand the impact of governance, risk, and compliance requirements throughout the enterprise. By the end of this CASP study guide, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 certification exam and have a handy reference guide.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Security Architecture
6
Section 2: Security Operations
11
Section 3: Security Engineering and Cryptography
16
Section 4: Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Summary

In this chapter, we have considered many threats that can impact an enterprise and identified policies and procedures to deal with unplanned security-related events. We learned about the importance of timely responses to security incidents. Knowledge has been gained on deploying the appropriate threat detection capabilities. We have studied automation, including orchestration and SOAR, also taking care to include a human in the loop. Ever-increasing evidence of APTs means that we need to rely on forensics to detect IOCs and, where necessary, collect the evidence to formulate a response. You should now be familiar with incident response planning and have a good understanding of forensic concepts. After completing the previous section, you should now be familiar with using forensic analysis tools.

Cybersecurity professionals must be able to recognize and use common security tools as these will be important for many day-to-day security activities. Nmap, dd, hashing utilities...